nikkimatt&isaac

irish eye's are smilin..

2009-03-13T11:16:00.000-07:00

my homie emily sent all the ladies an email challenging us to a limerick writing competish.. well, i took it as such.. here are the three i came up with:

there once was a girl named nikki

who lately was feeling quite icky

her man had to leave

and now she's bereaved

and they didn't have time for a quickie!!

well, my license AND plates are expired

and i'm getting real effing tired

of driving around

this whole g.d. town

jesus! what's next? a flat tyre?*

april first, the lease is up

and so i have to pack it up

i have too much shit

i wish i could quit

but instead i have to suck it up..

that last one is a shout out to good old kanye west who hearts rhyming the same word with itself...that's some "damn the man" thinking right there..

* i spelled tire irish style.."i'm a leprechaun..."

have an awesome guiness and corned beef day y'all.. wear your green!!

just what i needed...

2009-03-10T19:29:00.001-07:00

i thought my subscription to vf was done, but after a totally crappy day today..i found that bad boy in my mailbox when i came home! it was just what i needed to cheer my ass up!!

but you thought that cover was awesome? frickin check it out--------->

it gets even better----------------------------------------------------->

i love me some jason segal...

rogen does a mean frieda----------------------------------------------->

and a sweet honeymooners set up-------------------------------->

it was hard to remain mopey after reading* that article....

*yeah..each page had like, 72 words on it.. but still made me happy..

just another day at the zoo...

2009-02-12T11:06:00.000-08:00

so last weekend we decided to take a rainy day trip to the zoo to visit the small animal building.. we do a quick walk by of the animals on our way to the s.a.b., and then head in.. we hear the most god-awful moans and graons.. almost human-like.. so, since it's such a mellow day at the zoo (we were literally one of maybe 15 families there..) matt and i just assume it's some zoo workers being funny over the loudspeaker.. so while we are unloading isaac from his stroller, a woman kinda rushes by with her daughter.. so we ask her, "what's that noise?" and she briskly replies "it's the tortoises".. well, matt and i don't exactly "get" what she means until we walk into the atrium and see basically the picture above... oh dear lord, it was the closest i've ever been to nature, that's for sure! it went on for another minute or so, but when it was over, the dude tortoise dismounted and then they totally went their seperate ways.. it was craazzy!!
well, anyhow.. it's been almost a week, and isaac just can not seem to stop talking about "tortoise make a big sound" and "tortoise being loud.." he even dug through his books to find one he has about a tortoise and a hippo that are bff, he found his stuffed animal turtle, and that is now his "tortoise".. kiddo is officially obsessed with tortoises now!

dodo no mo mo.....

2009-02-09T10:31:00.000-08:00

well, the end of an era is dawning.. the dodo restaurant at the gateway is closing..

I have worked at the dodo since 2005.. first as a server for almost two years, then I left in april 2007 because I was about to pop with Isaac! then I returned in july of 2008 and was promoted to assistant manager in october.. it has been a great place to work with a very fun (and funny!) foh-that's "front of house"- staff, a super-hardworking and friendly boh-"back" and two awesomely generous owners, they always have a fun christmas party for us and i've never walked away from one empty-handed.

unfortunately, I can't say I didn't have my suspicions.. the restaurant has struggled in that location for a while now..we have been plagued by dripping dishwater floods from the restaurant above us (samba grill-at the time it was happening,now tucano's-no problems with them..)that forced us to close early on more than one occasion, costing us who knows what in sales.. and,well, i'm just tellin y'all right now: the gateway has cockroaches. I haven't seen any at the dodo since late '06, but there was a period of like 4-5 months where all employees were on serious patrol so no customers would see them.. icky, i know.. but like i said it's the whole hateway,i still see em all the time in the back hall behind california pizza kitchen..( the entire dodo staff hates that place! at least twice a day someone comes in thinking we are them..)

business there is unlike any other restaurant i've ever worked in..it's across from the Energy Solutions Arena(formerly Delta Center) so when there are events such as jazz games or concerts, it can get crazy busy!! it's also very close to many office buildings, so when I worked there the first time, i worked mostly lunches because that was where the money was.. i would walk with at least 60 bucks a day(a 3-4 hour day, can't beat that!) then, just as i was about to burst with le bebe, the UTA was beginning construction for the TRAX line, right in front of the restaurant!! from what i understand, it was basically all downhill from there..

this past wednesday, our sales for the dinner period(4-close) were $358.00... that is with four servers on, meaning each server didn't even sell one hundred each.. also, take into account that each server ordered their own dinner, and that's about 4o bucks of the night's sales.. so with each one selling about 70-80 bucks and (at best) getting tipped 20% on their sales, they would make 16 dollars, minus about 5 for dinner, and after a shift like that most will be needing a shift beer (2 bucks each)or two, and we are looking at an 8 dollar night for these hardworkers who make 2.13 an hour!! maybe we are all better off..

we have been told that "some of us" will have an opportunity to move up to the shiny new sugarhouse location which would make me happy since it is two minutes from my house, and i would gladly take a demotion back to server, i'd probably make more than i do now as an ass. man. working only 12-15 hours a week.. so, hopefully all will work out...

we are shutting our doors on saturday may 2nd 2009.. it was good knowing you downtown dodo.. thanks for all the good times and tasty turkey sandwiches..

best week ever!!

2009-01-19T19:17:00.000-08:00

well folks, here we are.. change is finally here!! i don't know if i can even express how elated i am that this man is taking the reins.. it's making me happy, nervous, excited and anxious!! i hope that everyone will truly live up to their words, and support our fabulous new commander in chief .. i tried to do my little part today, and set out a bag of food for Obama's Angels, a group that is based right here in the good old s l c! i know it's not much, but if people begin to stop and think about other people for once, i think we can get this country back on the right track.. i mean, greed is what got us into the situation we are all facing right now..and the only way the average joe is gonna get back on their feet is if they start facing reality and stop living above their means! plastic is not money people!! argh!! ok, enough soapbox..

so, not only do we (finally) get a new president, but we also get this:

my goodness! i can not wait for the three hour, that's right, i said THREE hour, season premier!!!

halloween!!(a few weeks late..)

2008-11-18T11:15:00.000-08:00

alright, so i know it's mid november, but here are some pictures of the little man dressed as a traditional german man.. complete with his oktoberfest brewski!! (don't worry y'all, it's a sippy wrapped in mama's awesome artwork) this is an outfit that matt also wore when he was just a wee little lad, so maybe it will become a family tradition...well, i guess next post will most likely be a thanksgiving update, so ta ta for now!!

go bama!!

2008-11-08T10:15:00.000-08:00

how stoked is everyone about president obama?!?! i know issac is.. his grandma and nanta beth sent him this awesome t shirt, and if you ask him who's on it, he says "bama"... so rad.. his cousin sebastian got one too, as you can see in the first picture.. i watch bashy on tuesdays, and it was a snow day, so matt was off work.. we loaded up the boys and took them to our polling places..(matt never reregistered when we moved to sugarhouse..shhh..) it was fun to see the boys in their matching getups, but they really didn't have much fun in the hallway of the old folks home that matt votes at, but they did get some free bagels in the "voters lounge" that was set up.. and then, they didn't even go in with me at st. ann's school. voting in utah is highly uneventfull.. just a bunch of olds..not even a bunch really, more like five people in a huge gym. i wish we had more of a crazy turnout, but i guess people just assume that the mo's control it all so why bother? well, anyway, matt and i then took the boys to starfucks to get our free "i voted" coffee, and being the kind serviceperson that i am, i insisted we actually buy something, and ordered a huge rice krispie treat, which i am saddened and ashamed to admit, totally spanked my (many) krispie treat recipes, i must figure out how to replicate it! so the boys had a sugar-fueled crazy fest once we got back home..

that night, i cried along with jesse, oprah, and everyone else, that was soo happy we just sat and stared.. go bama..

oh, yeah, i figured out the picture thing.. not hard, i just truly am computarded..

i don't think september actually happened....

2008-10-07T14:16:00.000-07:00

so much happened in september that it just flew by! nothing really major, just busy all the time..
isaac is a total chatterbox all the time.. his new favorite thing is they might be giants:here come the abc's!! he runs around the house yelling "go go go geeee!!" cutest shit i've ever seen.. he also likes to "siim"(swim) in the tub by getting on his tummy and kicking his legs. it's hilarious. the nannying is keeping us out of the house which can be good and bad. i don't think we've been this behind in laundry since isaac was first home from the hospital.. and also, boys are messy (both of them, ha) in work news, i'm going to start managing at the dodo actually just assistant manager(ass man) so that will be a nice change.. we have a new landlord who is moving in to the other side of the house and she's super nice and all, but they're re modeling the whole side so it's been insanely loud over there and isaac hasn't been napping well at all for the past few days and it;s taking it's toll on us all!! hmm.. what else, oh! natalie had a very lovely get together for all of her bridesmaids a couple weeks ago.. so that, along with a newly purchased laptop, has set off a lot of blog and website searching for all things wedding related!! super fun stuff, but highly addictive... eats up a lot of time that could be spent folding laundry, ha ha! we shall return, with more exciting updates...and pictures??

very busy lately..

2008-08-31T14:50:00.000-07:00

nice, how i start a blog and then post nothing.. well, we've got a packed schedule these days. isaac and i head over to nanny @ 830 and don't get home til 230, he goes down around 3, then i clean the house til i have to get ready for work, then i'm out the door by530! not home til 11 most nights.. then, poor matt leaves the house by 6am, and gets home just in time to shower before i have to go. luckily this only happens 3 nights a week, but nannying is m-th, so still, not much fun.. matt's doing a really good job at being mr. mom, so that's very sweet to see.. my boys are awesome! the new nanny gig is going very well, the little guys have a lot of fun together, and the parents are very nice people.. one thing i find odd however is the lack of either pets or plants in the house. maybe there's an allergy situation, or something.. but not even like a kitchen windowsill cactus or anything.. i don't know, maybe it's just me but i feel like a house needs plants and/or pets.. any how, i have figured out how to get pics from the camera to the computer, but now i've got to tackle computer to blog.. maybe next post?

thank goodness that's over...

2008-08-23T12:10:00.000-07:00

All summer longI nannied for a few different kids, a brother-sister duo, ages 7 & 10, my nephew who's 5 and my niece who's 6. And well, elementary school starts next week,andI couldn't be happier.....Don't get me wrong, it was a good time for the most part, but a mix of ages and genders like that was just too much sometimes("he's looking @ me!", "she touched me!", etc..) So, begining next weekI'll be looking after a cute little dude who is just a couple months younger than Isaac, and hopefully, the craziness will be toned down a few notches, butI guess we'll just have to wait and see...

the triumphant return of netflix!!

2008-08-18T11:12:00.000-07:00

last tuesday i got a pop up for a 2 week netflix trial. we had it before but my dumb ass used a credit card that expired a month after i signed up so it was a very short lived membership. so i decided to sign us right up and then come to find out that there were some "issues" (their wording) @ netflix so we didn't actually get any movies till this saturday. oh well, our 2 week trial got extened for an extra week so i can't complain.. due to an oversight on my part i inadvertently signed up for the 3 @ a time plan so come saturday we got the entire third season of Weeds!! i'd forgotten how effed up everything was at the end of season 2.. pretty epic stuff.. coming next will be surfs up! a penguin movie that i hope isaac will like a lot mainly cause matt and i are about ready to make happy feet disappear. that boy loves him some pengies!!

we have sound!!

2008-08-16T11:11:00.000-07:00

i'm so very proud of myself! i am starting to get the hang of this blog building stuff and have managed to create what i think is a pretty sweet playlist. i will add to it as inspiration hits me.. now, on to photos...

techmology!

2008-08-16T09:42:00.000-07:00

well people, i've done it... blog city, here i come! now if only i could figure out how to post pictures...